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culture are the same as for dwarf beans, the 

 Scarlet Runner and White Dutch Runner. 



There are more than 100 varieties of beans 

 and no one book could give in detail aU that is 

 of interest concerning them, but the gardener 

 who wants to know more of his bean crop may 

 read Bailey, Bulletin 87 Cornell Experiment Sta- 

 tion, and Cornell Bulletin 115. 



Bush beans are sown in drills, 18 to 20 inches 

 apart to admit of easy and frequent tillage, which 

 is necessary to preserve moisture and destroy 

 weeds; the plants stand from five to ten inches 

 apart in each row. One pint of seed wiU sow 

 from 75 to 125 feet of drill, according to the 

 variety of bean used, or at the rate of one bushel 

 up to five pecks of seed to the acre, when sown 

 in drills. Fall, or climbing beans, and all 

 Lima beans, are sown in hills, four or five seeds 

 to a hUl, and the hUls are three to four feet 

 apart. 



Pole and Lima beans need supports and when 

 poles are scarce you may put strong stakes in 

 the ground at distances of 10 to 12 feet, and 

 then run two rows of wire from pole to pole, 

 one row near the ground and one near the top 

 of the stake. Then from the top to the bottom 

 wire, run cords, up which the beans may climb. 

 In small, home gardens, growers often sow Lima 



